In Grudge Match, De Niro and Stallone play Billy "The Kid” McDonnen and Henry “Razor” Sharp, two local Pittsburgh fighters whose fierce rivalry put them in the national spotlight. Each had scored a victory against the other during their heyday, but in 1983, on the eve of their decisive third match, Razor suddenly announced his retirement, refusing to explain why but effectively delivering a knock-out punch to both their careers. Thirty years later, boxing promoter Dante Slate Jr., seeing big dollar signs, makes them an offer they can’t refuse: to re-enter the ring and settle the score once and for all.

But they may not have to wait that long: on their first encounter in decades, their long-festering feud erupts into an unintentionally hilarious melee that instantly goes viral. The sudden social media frenzy transforms their local grudge match into a must-see HBO event. Now, if they can just survive the training, they may actually live to fight again.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is the second of a planned trilogy of movies based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit. Despite the fact it only covers a few chapters from the famous novel, the movie offers plenty of action and a striking ending that makes it a vast improvement over the first segment.

There were four new wide release movies dumped into theaters for the last week of the year, and if the filmmakers were hoping to take advantage of people heading to the movies for the holiday weekend, they were likely a little disappointed.

The holiday season is officially upon us, observed less through Christmas decorations and cold weather and more by the onslaught of Oscar fare hitting theaters this month. December is always a truly great time for both quality dramas and big bombastic comedies, and this year won’t be bucking that trend.

It was the Grudge Match trailer that ultimately tipped me off to the fact that this movie wants to be Meet the Parents or The Bucket List more than it wants to be Rocky or Raging Bull … films that had something meaningful to say about boxing and the men who compete in the sport.

Directed by Peter Segal and based on a script by Tim Kelleher, Doug Ellin and Rodney Rothman, the film tells the story of Henry 'Razor' Sharp (Stallone) and Billy 'The Kid' McDonnen (De Niro), two pugilists who struck up a prime rivalry back in the heyday of their careers. This relationship is brought back when both of the boxers are hired to take part in a long awaited rematch that will determine who is the real champion between them.

Today Warner Bros has given us one of each kind of release date switch. Let's start with the good kind first. The Robert DeNiro-Sylvester Stallone boxing comedy (yes, that's really what it is) Grudge Match was originally slated for a mid-January release next year, but the studio appears to have gotten brave and scheduled it for Christmas Day of this year instead

Rocky and Raging Bull fans alike have reason to anticipate Peter Segal's next comedy. The Anger Management helmer is putting Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone back in the ring for. Together. Grudge Match will have the two actors playing aging boxing rivals who come out of retirement for one more fight, half a century after their last match.

As a general rule, when studios are putting together their respective release schedules they try to keep their titles as isolated as they can be. It's just simple logic: the fewer number of movies being released on a given weekend means less competition and higher chances for box office success. Which makes this recent round of release date news so strange.

Jon Bernthal's run on AMC's The Walking Dead may be over (for the most part, anyway), but the actor certainly isn't going anywhere anytime soon. In addition to having a starring role in a new TV pilot in the works, he's also set to appear in The Wolf on Wall Street and now he has another interesting role lined up, playing the son of Robert De Niro's character in Grudge Match.

If you're casting an older actor to play the role of Sylvester Stallone's ringside coach, you couldn't do much better than Burgess Meredith, who starred as Mickey Goldmill in four of the first five Rocky movies. Sadly, however, Meredith died in 1997. So who would be the best possible actor to take the role today? The new movie Grudge Match has found him.

Kim Basinger has signed on to play "the woman caught in the middle" of De Niro and Stallone's showdown. This marks Basinger's first time working with either of these heavyweight leading men, and appears her most high profile project since—I don't know—2004's Cellular?

Two of the greatest cinematic boxers of all time are getting ready to go one-on-one in a new movie, as Warner Bros. has officially given the greenlight to Grudge Match, an upcoming pugilist picture starring Robert De Niro (a.k.a. Jake La Motta from Raging Bull) and Sylvester Stallone (a.k.a. Rocky Balboa from Rocky).

There's been a rumor floating around for a few years that Robert De Niro and Sylvester Stallone, the actors behind two of the most famous boxers to ever it make it onscreen, might get back in the ring for a film called Grudge Match, in which they'd play a pair of aging boxers who go after each other in one last match